Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun] [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I walked as normally as I could into the playground , my private pain overcome for fear of discovery . |
| 2 | Then I work out much I want to sell each work for : my first painting sold for £25 , a small fortune then for an art student , and enough for a holiday in Italy . |
| 3 | ‘ My accident left my whole family crippled for life ’ |
| 4 | His most recent film work was the script for ROBIN HOOD ( starring Patrick Bergin ) which Working Title produced for Twentieth Century Fox . |
| 5 | Four of Africa 's most talented peoples — the Ibo , the Bamilike , the waChagga and the Bugunda — have all had their innovative talents circumscribed for many years . |
| 6 | Tribal sculpture and the painting of Cézanne , both of which were used extensively by Picasso as sources for the Demoiselles , were to be the two major influences in the creation of Cubism ; in fact the constant inspiration which Picasso and Braque drew from the art of Cézanne and the stimulation which tribal sculpture provided for Picasso were the only important outside influences in the development of a style which was to be very self-contained . |
| 7 | In a broadcast on Dec. 21 , 1989 , Aquino announced the cancellation of her foreign visits planned for 1990 , including visits to the Soviet Union , United Kingdom and Spain . |
| 8 | Now she was smiling , accompanied by a very young Italian who might have been one of the waiters her old school-friend saved for the last . |
| 9 | Government revenue was projected to rise by 3.9 per cent to 454,900 million kronor ( of which one-third would come from value added tax revenue ) and expenditure to rise by 3.4 per cent to 455,500 million kronor ( of which social welfare accounted for 28 per cent and education and interest on public debt each accounted for 13 per cent ) . |
| 10 | ‘ It is understandable the Queen should have her official correspondence paid for . |
| 11 | Parents were given the option of having their male infants screened for Duchenne muscular dystrophy in addition to the routine tests for phenylketonuria and congenital hypothyroidism . |
| 12 | Again her quick wits worked for her . |
| 13 | As a result , people in these institutions quickly came to take on the roles and goals which these institutions required for their survival . |
| 14 | Its supporting declaration called for the creation of " independent organs of struggle based on the factories " , and this was taken up at the Workers Charter Convention held in Bermondsey on 12 April 1931 . |
| 15 | BELOW : Millbottom ( Ruskin ) Mill has been a cloth , corn and saw mill as well as a brass finishing works and shoe stiffener manufactory and in its later life used for the manufacture of dyestuffs . |
| 16 | ‘ You like me , do n't you ? she had asked , her long hair loosened for sleep . |
| 17 | United States Secretary of State James Baker held talks in Moscow with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze on May 16-19 to prepare for the summit between their respective Presidents scheduled for May 30-June 3 . |
| 18 | Her consultative paper provided for withdrawal of the private use of outpatient facilities from NHS hospitals as well . |
| 19 | The new rich who were building new houses were only too happy to have their aesthetic decisions made for them by the ‘ professionals ’ . |
| 20 | And furious farmers were powerless to do anything about the handsome profits their former land fetched for the Department of the Environment , who took it over in the mid-1960s . |
| 21 | Some days Ariel carried the hooped Sycorax on her back ( she would not ride on anyone else ) down to the shore and into the water , and held her up under the arms so that she could let her contorted frame float free ; small currents spun in the water as if to ease her , and the sky 's blue height seemed to catch them up into its soft vastness and give them fins and wings to fly and swoop , so that they both felt airier and brighter than they had since their freedom had come to an end , and the memory of their former peace returned for a space . |
| 22 | Small girls in Sunday-best frocks demanded autographs and their party-worker mums posed for photographs alongside Mr Smith and Kate Phillips — the candidate charged with toppling Michael Forsyth . |
| 23 | Malcolm MacEwen and Geoffrey Sinclair in their parallel report prepared for the Council for National Parks also examined a wide range of issues but concentrated on agriculture and the implications of its financial support in the uplands . |
| 24 | She suggests that the ‘ board ’ money which young people paid for living in the parental household was seen as an exchange , especially for daughters : they handed over their wages to their mothers and in exchange their mothers equipped them to enable them to go into service . |
| 25 | From the high of an extraordinary pastoral letter in which Catholic bishops called for reform , in unprecedented criticism of Dr Banda 's 28 years of one-party rule , there is now the low of Chihana 's arrest , the church 's silence , re-establishment of government-by-fear and doubts about western bite once the barking stops . |
| 26 | Sometimes she brings her children with her , which I do n't much like , and sometimes she leaves them with her sister , which I like even less , because for her to have her two children minded for her so that she can mind my one is simply crazy . |
| 27 | She sat at the window , looking out on the gardens , not wanting to be reminded of her ordeal as her two companions searched for any clues that might have been left . |
| 28 | To symbolise her new life , her new role defined for her by the male rule-makers of society , a girl may even be given a new name on marriage . |
| 29 | A MAN who stabbed his wife to death in front of their young son begged for the boy 's forgiveness in court yesterday . |
| 30 | TEN packets of lavatory paper still in their 1910 wrappers sold for £176 yesterday in an auction at Sandon Hall , Staffs . |